The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 137, Issue 1 , Pages 20-22, January 2009

COUNTERPOINT: Despite staging inaccuracies, patients with non–small cell lung cancer are best served by having integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography before therapy

  • Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, FACS, FCCP

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, FACS, FCCP, Professor, Department of Surgery, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), 703 19th St S, ZRB 739, Birmingham, AL 35294.

Department of Surgery, the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala

Received 21 June 2008; accepted 29 August 2008.

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 Read at the Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, California, May 10–14, 2008. Presented as part of the Point/Counterpoint Session in General Thoracic Surgery.

PII: S0022-5223(08)01473-6

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.08.048

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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 137, Issue 1 , Pages 20-22, January 2009

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